Debussy, Messiaen, Terry Riley, Morton Feldman, North Indian Classican, Javanese, Balinese, Tuvanese, Sufi Quwallis, Yoga, Buddhism, Tantra, meditation, animal rights, cats, dogs, elephants, squirrels, sparrows, crows, wind, sun, the night sky, all things natural and wild.
An advocate for pioneering art and music, multi-media collaborations and cross-cultural partnerships, electro-acoustic composer Allison Ogden began studying composition at age 13 with Andrew Waggoner of Syracuse University. In 1997 she entered the Eastman School of Music as a double major, where she studied clarinet with Kenneth Grant and composition with Augusta Read Thomas, Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse and David Liptak. It was during her time at Eastman that she became passionate about computer/electro-acoustic/multi-media works, after studying computer music with Alan Schindler at the Eastman Computer Music Center. In 2001 she moved to Chicago and entered the University of Chicago’s PhD program in music composition, where she has studied computer music with Howard Sandroff and composition with Shulamit Ran, Marta Ptaszynska, Elzbieta Sikora, Bernard Rands and Kotoka Suzuki. She is the co-founder of the Chicago-based new music group the Fire Wire Ensemble, which is dedicated to presenting acoustic, electro-acoustic and multi-media works by young and contemporary composers. Her music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe, most recently with the Polish Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, the Silesian Dance Theater, Contempo, at the International Computer Music Conference in Belfast, the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, SEAMUS 2009, The University of Iowa and New Music Miami. She received a PhD in Music Composition and Computer Music from the University of Chicago in June, 2008. An outdoor sports enthusiast and preservation and conservation advocate, she spends what small amount of free time she has doing yoga, running, rock climbing, hiking, meditating, cooking or reading. She recently completed her first marathon and is looking forward to her second. Ms. Ogden currently teaches composition at the University of Louisville and lives with her boyfriend, fellow University of Chicago electro-acoustic/multi-media composer Krzysztof Wolek and her cat Arya, devourer of tuna, bane of all things stringy.
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hey! it's really cool to have you as a friend on here, so thank you! if you have a few minutes check out my page, for music, scores, pictures and videos. let me know what you think :-)
dudes... finished the transcription of tephillah. And tell krzysztof that yeah, it took me that long. Go look at the score sometime and tell me you think it looks easy! anyway, what have you guys been up to? What's going on for the next concert? I'm out like disco...
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